So let me get this straight. Gas costs alot, so we make cars burn more gas for less mileage. And this is good for the consumer? It's obviously great for big oil.

Thanks to President Trump’s leadership, we have finally ended the illegal mandate that forced automakers to produce more expensive electric vehicles that American families didn’t want,” Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said in a statement touting vehicle affordability, vehicle safety and investment in American auto workers.

Damn straight! If my car or truck ain't big, loud, inefficient, polluting and running exclusively on completely nonrenewable, expensive to refine, 100 million year old fossil goo, I ain't interested! Who cares if only less than 25% of the energy contained in a tank of gas is actually used to move my car, while the other 75%+ is totally wasted as heat. Efficiency is for nerds.

Seriously, though, I really don't want an expensive EV. I want an affordable EV. We need more of those.

This isn't likely to change anything in the market. Auto manufacturers have invested shitloads into meeting those standards and they're not going to retroactively change their already-designed powerplants over rules that will probably change again in 6 months.

Also it won't matter anyway since automakers realized they can just upsell everyone into "luxury" light trucks in the US and fuel economy standards don't matter to those anyway.

Hold on, hold on you're telling me EVs are "too expensive" but secretary what's his face said that if US wants cheaper gas they should drive less?!? American logic i guess.

Beyond global warming, there is smog/pollution problems with it.

More importantly, it is directly increasing oil use which directly increases gasoline prices compared to any lesser use. So more evidence that higher oil, gasoline, diesel prices now are intended by design.

The people who want this are either fossil fuel cultists or cannot afford vehicles that would be affected.

Maybe I'm imagining but does everyone standing behind him have a look of 'just here for a paycheck while putting up with the bosses idiocy'?

I'm sure there will be a lot of demand for lower MPG after this year.

If the US ever regains its sanity there will literally need to be an entirely new government Office of Detrumpification, fully staffed with expert teams tasked to review and reverse all the wrong he's done, and that's only to struggle back to the status quo.

We need new Nuremberg trials so desperately